Mold Designer, Mold Maker and Mold Repair Technician of the Year to be Named

The Mold Technologies Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers will name 2023 recipients for Mold Designer, Mold Maker and Mold Repair Technician of the year at the PTXPO. The presentation will be held at 2:30 CDT on Wednesday, March 29 at the Mold Technologies PTXPO booth (1614), with Richard Evans, division awards chair, officiating.

The Mold Designer of the year began in 1992, and previous winners include Robert Dealey, Jay Shoemaker, Tim Peterson and Steve Johnson. The award is sponsored by Hasco America. The Mold Maker of the year Award was started by the division in 1983, and past honorees include Glenn Beall, Josef Klingler, William Monteith and Joe Prischak. It will be sponsored by Progressive Components. 2023 will by the inaugural year for presenting Mold Repair Person of the Year, which will be sponsored by MoldTrax LLC.

In 2022 at the PTXPO, Rick Finnie of M.R. Mold & Engineering was named the mold maker of the year and Marcin Zajac of A-1 Tool was awarded the mold designer of the year.

The award include a stipend presented to the plastics or mold making program of the recipient’s choice, which will be awarded in their name and that of the sponsoring company.

Regarding the new repair award, SPE noted it was an effort to recognize an otherwise group of “unsung heroes in our industry.” Charged with trying to determine the root cause of tooling failures, and often doing so without parts, they are described as the crime scene investigators of the molding industry by the Mold Technologies Div.